infantrycak
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I think that the Texans should step back from everything and try to look at their problem differently. Buying the carpet they did to roll out over concrete was a bad idea (I believe) and this problem calls for some creative, out of the box type thinking.
Pallets. That's the system we are tied to. There's not going to be any full-time grass field grown in there. They're not going to go to a conventional artificial surface over concrete. Maybe they should be looking at redesigning/rethinking the trays. How deep are they? Can they be made deeper? What is their composition? How do they fit together and is there a way to lock them together tighter?
Is a tray-based artificial surface possible? Could one be designed that had under the turf material that closer approximated dirt?
This thing we're doing is catching more and more bad attention as time goes by. Clearly it's not working as well as the Texans expected so the obvious thing to do is go to work on the problem and reinvent the field.
This is where I am - look for improvement within the requirements for the facility.
DB's JJ Moses comments point to something I've said bears investigation -> the crew itself. Inconsistency is frequently a labor error rather than a design error. Has there been a crew or procedure change because the issue is coming up more in the last 3 years than in the 9 before?